The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from Kyrgyzstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 304 Handball Players, 2 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 19th most number of Handball Players behind Hungary and Réunion.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kirghiz Handball Players of all time. This list of famous Kirghiz Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Talant Duyshebaev (1968 - )
With an HPI of 50.55, Talant Duyshebaev is the most famous Kirghiz Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Talant Mushanbetovich Dujshebaev (Russian: Талант Мушанбетович Дуйшебаев; born 2 June 1968) is a former handball player, and current coach, who serves as the head coach for Vive Kielce. Dujshebaev is considered by many to be one of the greatest handball coaches of his generation. He successively played for 4 national teams in his playing career: First for the Soviet Union, then the Unified Team, then Russia and finally Spain. His most usual demarcation as a player was centre backcourt. After initially having success with BM Ciudad Real as a coach, he has been coaching Kielce for nearly a decade now.
2. Polina Kuznetsova (1987 - )
With an HPI of 30.29, Polina Kuznetsova is the 2nd most famous Kirghiz Handball Player. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Polina Viktorovna Kuznetsova (Russian: Полина Викторовна Кузнецова, IPA: [pɐˈlʲinə kʊzʲnʲɪˈtsovə], née Vyakhireva; born 10 June 1987) is a Russian handball player for Rostov-Don and formerly the Russian national team. She won gold medals with the Russian national team at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2005 and 2007 world championships, and was included into the 2007 championship's All-Star Team. She retired from the national team, in August 2021. She competes internationally alongside her sister Anna Vyakhireva.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as handball players born between 1968 and 1987. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living handball players include Talant Duyshebaev and Polina Kuznetsova.
